Empowered to Connect just launched a series of 8 videos with the most important, basic information that every parent adopting should know. I'm going to post one video per day to make it more manageable for you to watch them. I am so grateful for the wisdom and knowledge from Dr. Purvis and her colleagues. We fully expect bringing three kids with traumatic histories from another country into our family to be the hardest thing we have ever done. But, the valuable knowledge from Dr. Karen Purvis has enabled us to feel prepared with great tools to connect with our kids and help them adjust, and has given us therapeutic parenting skills for life-long healing in our children.
The first video below is Children from Hard Places. The thing I have found so interesting with all the information from Dr. Karen Purvis and the ETC website/resources is that there is always something new to learn. Even though I have read about as much of their info possible, I still learned new things watching this video.
A last thing I would add about this particular video today is that there is good information regarding domestic adoptions. Many people - myself included until very recently - think that if you adopt a child at birth or if you were in the room when he/she was born, your child is not at risk for the "hard places" risk factors. And it is simply not true. It took me awhile to be convinced but through a lot of reading and listening to Dr. Karen Purvis I fully believe that Abram falls in the category of a child from a hard place. Granted it is not nearly as hard of a place as our other three kids but there are still risks for him. The reason is that there is so much brain development in-utero that any stress a birth mother experiences directly affects the brain development of a baby before he is born. Dr. Purvis touches on this in the video. If you would like more information about this topic, please email me. I would be happy to talk more about this.
Children from Hard Places from Tapestry on Vimeo.
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